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Re: About `current-kill'


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: About `current-kill'
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:00:53 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> In the definition of the function `current-kill':
>
> [...]
>       (let ((ARGth-kill-element
>            (nthcdr (mod (- n (length kill-ring-yank-pointer))
>                         (length kill-ring))
>                    kill-ring)))
> [...]
>
> I understand what `ARGth-kill-element' does (from its name).  But how
> does it work?  I cannot understand it.

ARGth-kill-element *does* nothing. It *is* a variable that takes the
value of the expression that begins with (nthcdr ...




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